Xref: utzoo sci.bio:1359 sci.misc:2153 sci.research:427
Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!jack
From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: The Loch Ness Monster
Message-ID: <1528@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Jul 88 10:20:21 GMT
References: <861@altger.UUCP>
Reply-To: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie, Unthank
Lines: 22
Summary:
Expires:
Sender:
Followup-To:
Keywords:


Macros@altger.UUCP (Macros) wrote:
> In another article in some scientific magazin (forgot which one) and some
> time ago in german TV it was proposed that the dinosaurs might well have
> been warmblooded animals. This could make it more propable that some of them
> could survive in the cold depths of the Loch.

In the last couple of glaciations the ice on top of Loch Ness was about a mile
thick. Your dinosaurs would have had to hold their breath under it for a few
thousand years. But since adherents of the dinosaur theory also seem to think
their pets can stay underwater for a decade or so between sightings, they may
not see this as a problem.

There is a recent book called something like "The Loch Ness Mystery Solved"
which suggests that the "monsters" are rotting trees that surface when enough
gas builds up.

-- 
ARPA: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk       USENET: jack@cs.glasgow.uucp
JANET:jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs      useBANGnet: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack
Mail: Jack Campin, Computing Science Dept., Glasgow Univ., 17 Lilybank Gardens,
      Glasgow G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND     work 041 339 8855 x 6045; home 041 556 1878